1897] A CALIFORNIAN MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION 31 
with many windows. It measures sixty feet long by twenty feet 
wide. The newer, smaller, but more substantial building measures 
forty by twenty-six feet. From the figure one may also see the 
two large salt-water tanks, which have been so arranged that each 
can supply either building. The older building is now used mainly 
for the classes of elementary students. It has two laboratories on 
the ground floor, a small engine room, and a concreted workshop, 
which serves as a dissecting room for the larger marine beasts. 
Upstairs a long laboratory faces the east, and on the south side a 
series of small separate rooms have been arranged for investigators. 
In the newer building a laboratory occupies the rear end of the 
ground floor, used during last summer mainly for students in the 
botanical courses; and on the floor just above there is a room of 
the same size, with blackboards, cases, and portable tables, used 
both as a lecture room and laboratory. The front part of the house 
in both storeys is divided by partitions into a dozen rooms for in- 
vestigators, and it has, in addition, a photographic dark room. 
Throughout both buildings the fittings are simple but adequate. 
There is an abundant supply of microscopes, reagents, glassware 
and the usual set of dredges, tangles, and nets, a small beam-trawl, 
and apparatus for sounding and temperature-taking. At present 
the boat facilities include only a rowing boat and a small sailing 
boat, the latter almost too small for dredging or trawling, except in 
comparatively shallow water. Hitherto, however, the laboratory 
seems scarcely to have needed collecting facilities for the deeper 
water—enough at least to warrant the support of a steam vessel. 
The shore fauna has been of the richest, and dredging in shallow 
water could well be done with the boat at hand. As a convenient 
means of collecting in the shallow rocky bays a water-glass has 
been found of great service, especially in securing conspicuous 
forms such as echinoderms and holothurians, and has to a certain 
degree served as a substitute for diving apparatus, which here, as at 
the French marine station at Banyuls, might well prove of the 
ereatest value. The station has never found difficulty in securing 
an abundant supply of fish material, thanks to the Chinese fishermen 
of the neighbouring village. 
A whole article might be written on this small Chinese village 
near Monterey. It is but a quarter of an hour’s walk from the 
laboratory, approached along the ledge of the railroad on the seaside 
rim of the town—a daily walk for a number of the students, who 
have come to have the greatest faith in the fishing powers of the 
heathen. This walk is by no means an uninteresting one; the sea- 
birds are around, whitening the tall rocky ledges, and on every hand 
there are quantities of little ground squirrels—a species of sper- 
mophile—which sit up before the visitor like little prairie dogs. 
